33 the first instance on February 20, 1998, Judge Percy Escobar again declared that the said action for amparo was inadmissible 32; and m.2) two petition for popular action filed on June 3, 1997: one submitted by César Raúl Rodríguez Rabanal, Julio S. Cotler Dolberg, Luis Fernando de la Flor Arbulú and Alberto Alfonso Borea Odría before the Public Law Chamber of first instance against the State, requesting that the general effects of articles 12, 13, 15 and 27 of the supreme decree that regulated Nationality Law No. 2657433 be declared inadmissible; and another filed by Fernando Viaña Villa, Luis Iberico Núñez and Iván García Mayer against the Ministry of the Interior, requesting that articles 12 and 15 of the said decree be declared unconstitutional34. The two complaints were joined35, and on January 30, 1998, they were declared inadmissible36; n) the composition and attributions of several judicial tribunals were modified: n.1) on June 17, 1997, the Judiciary’s Executive Committee modified the composition of the Constitutional and Social Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru, through Administrative Resolution No. 393-CME-PJ37; n.2) on June 23, 1997, the Judiciary’s Executive Committee granted the Constitutional and Social Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru the power to create, on a “[t]emporary” basis, higher and temporary public law chambers, and also to “appoint and/or ratify” the members38; and n.3) on June 25, 1997, the Constitutional and Social Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru created temporary commercial public law and administrative law chambers and courts in the Lima Judicial 32 Cf. Order No. 18, of February 20, 1998, issued by the First Temporary Commercial Public Law Court, referring to File No. 975-97. 33 Cf. Popular action petition filed before the Public Law Chamber of the Superior Court of Lima on June 3, 1997. 34 Cf. Popular action petition filed before the Public Law Chamber of the Superior Court of Lima on June 3, 1997. 35 Cf. Report No. 194-97 of December 26, 1997, in which the Public Ministry requests that the joined public action petitions should be declared admissible; and order of the First Temporary Commercial Public Law Chamber of January 30, 1998, regarding file No. 1173-97. 36 Cf. Order of the First Temporary Commercial Public Law Chamber of January 30, 1998, regarding file No. 1173-97. 37 Cf. Administrative Decision No. 393-CME-PJ of June 17, 1997, published in the official gazette El Peruano on June 18 that year. 38 Cf. Administrative Decision No. 399-CME-PJ, issued by the Executive Committee of the Judiciary on June 23, 1997, published in the official gazette, El Peruano, on June 24, 1997; Administrative Decision No. 001-97-SC and S-CSJ of June 25, 1997; published in the official gazette, El Peruano, on June 26, that year; Administrative Decision No. 002-97-SC and S-CSJ of June 25, 1997, and also the list of errata, relating to the resolution published in the official gazette, El Peruano, on June 27, that year; and expert report of Samuel Abad Yupanqui before the Inter-American Court on November 20, 2000.

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